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Huff N' More Puff Review
Huff N' More Puff is a cartoonish fairytale-inspired game that unfolds on a 5x3 grid set between two hedges with a forest backdrop. You'll notice a fiery bonus wheel behind the semi-transparent reels, hinting at the potential for big wins. While there's no background music, the reels land with a flat mechanical sound. Keep an eye out for the wolf's tail popping up from the hedges, a playful reminder of the story's villain.
On the reels, you'll encounter the 3 little pigs as the top-paying symbols. They sport different outfits, with the highest paying one dressed in an elegant suit, followed by a pig in work clothes, and lastly, a relaxed pig leaning against a log. A toolbox and a roll of tape make up the other premium symbols. These symbols offer payouts ranging from 0.5x to 3x your stake for 5-of-a-kind wins. Huff N' More Puff uses a Pay Ways system, meaning wins are formed by landing matching symbols anywhere on 3+ adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel.
The royal symbols (A, K, Q, J, 10, and 9) offer smaller payouts, but they appear more frequently. The wolf makes an appearance as the Wild symbol, helping you create winning combinations by substituting for any other pay symbol. You'll find the Wilds on reels 2, 3, and 4. To speed things up, you can activate Turbo Mode. This also allows for quick stops. With bet levels ranging from €0.20 to €100 per spin, Huff N' More Puff slot caters to both cautious players and high rollers.
The Bonus Wheel holds the key to the game's biggest rewards, including jackpot prizes and free spins features, and all bonus rounds come with a position frame upgrade system. Before the free spins begin, positions on the reels are upgraded with frames. During the free spins, Hard Hat scatters further upgrade these frames, and they come in 3 levels: straw, stick, and brick. Brick frames offer the highest potential rewards of up to the 5,000x max win. While the game's volatility isn't disclosed, the top-tier 96 % RTP is a tad above average.
Huff N' More Puff Features
There are no base game features in Huff N' More Puff slot, unless you count Wild symbols as a feature. However, there are plenty of bonus rounds to compensate, and these are triggered either from the Wheel Feature or via scatters in the base game. Let’s take a closer look!
Wheel Feature
The Wheel Feature triggers when you land at least 3 Buzz Saw scatters in view, awarding one spin on the bonus wheel that’s usually hiding behind the reels. The wheel spin delivers either the Buzz Saw, Mansion, or Mega Hat feature, or the Mini, Minor, Major, or Grand Jackpot worth 20x, 100x, 1,000x, or 5,000x your stake, respectively. The wheel segments do not have equal odds.
Mega Hat Feature
You start with 6 free spins in the Mega Hat feature, but first, a Mega Hat spin plays out. Only Mega Hat symbols of size 2x2, 3x3, or 3x5 will land during this spin, adding a straw frame to all affected positions. Landing 3 Hard Hat scatters during the bonus round awards +1 extra free spin, and landing Hard Hat symbols continue to add straw frames to non-framed positions during the feature.
Landing a Hard Hat symbol in a straw frame position upgrades it to a stick frame, while an additional Hard Hat in that position upgrades the frame to brick. On the final free spin, the framed positions turn into straw, stick, or brick houses, revealing the following prizes:
- The Straw House awards a prize between 0.5x and 2x your stake.
- The Stick House awards a prize between 2x and 8x, or the Mini jackpot, Mini x2 jackpot, or Minor jackpot.
- The Brick House awards a prize between 10x and 250x your stake, or the Mini, Mini x2, Minor, Major, or Grand jackpot.
Buzz Saw Feature
The Buzz Saw feature awards 6 free spins, with Buzz Saws moving across the grid. A straw frame is added to each affected position. Hard Hat scatters add or upgrade frames as in the Mega Hat feature, and landing 3 hard hats at the same time awards +1 extra free spin.
Mansion Feature
Is similar to the Buzz Saw feature, but all affected positions immediately reach the Brick Frame level. You start with 6 free spins and 3 Hard Hat scatters in view awards +1 free spin.
Huff N' More Puff Free Spins
The free spins bonus round can be triggered from the base game as well, by landing 6+ Hard Hat scatters in view. Each triggering position is upgraded to the straw frame level, and you win +1 extra free spin when you land 3 Hard Hat scatters in view.
Huff N' More Puff Bonus Buy (not UK)
Eligible players can purchase the Free Spins feature or Wheel Feature by paying 47.5x the stake. After paying, the spin that follows triggers one of the features.
Pros and Cons of Huff N' More Puff
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| Wheel feature delivers FS or up to 5,000x | Beware of adjustable RTP ranges |
| 3 FS features w/ 3-level position frame prizes | No base game features except wilds |
| Brick frames can deliver the 5,000x jackpot | |
| The overall max win is also 5,000x your stake |
Our Verdict
The 3 little pigs fairytale is a popular theme in online slots.
While the symbols themselves are a slight improvement, the overall aesthetic still falls short. Even the game logo has a cheap feel, and the semi-transparent black reels do no favors for the game's visual appeal. Why not just go fully transparent? Peering through those reels feels like looking through a pair of cheap sunglasses. The lack of background music only amplifies the monotonous thud of the reels landing. I found the spin pace to be annoying as well, even with the turbo switched on.
The base game is overall sluggish, with no features or modifiers to break up the monotony except wilds. Thankfully, the Bonus Wheel and Free Spins feature trigger fairly regularly. The Wheel offers a shot at the 5,000x max win, as well as smaller jackpot prizes, or entry to one of the free spins features. While all the bonus rounds follow a similar format, the Mansion feature is the one to aim for. It awards only top-tier Brick frames, each with the potential to crack the max win.
Despite the decent potential and the many bonus rounds, Huff N' More Puff game feels more like hard work than a fun gaming experience. It's as if you’re the one huffing and puffing to get through it. In the end, I just wished the wolf would blow the whole thing down.
